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June 28, 2014

Five Ways to Fall Blog Tour: Excerpt + Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the Five Ways to Fall blog tour! I have an exclusive excerpt from the book to share - and don't forget to enter the giveaway! To follow the rest of the tour, click on the banner above.

Five Ways to Fall (Ten Tiny Breaths #4)

Author: K.A. Tucker

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

Release Date: June 24, 2014

Publisher: Atria Books

Description:

Sometimes you can’t change—and sometimes
you just don’t want to. Discover Ben’s side of the story in this fourth novel
by the beloved, top-selling indie author of Ten Tiny Breaths,One
Tiny Lie, and Four Seconds to Lose.

Purple-haired, sharp-tongued Reese MacKay knows all about making the wrong
choice; she’s made plenty of them in her twenty-odd-years. So when her
impulsive, short-lived marriage ends in heartbreak, she decides it’s time for a
change. She moves to Miami with the intention of hitting reset on her
irresponsible life, and she does quite well…aside from an epically humiliating
one-night stand in Cancun with a hot blond bouncer named Ben. Thank God she can
get on a plane and leave that mistake behind her.

Football scholarship and frat parties with hot chicks? Part of charmer Ben
Morris’s plan. Blown knee that kills any hope of a professional football
career? So not part of the plan. Luckily Ben has brains to go
with his knockout looks and magnetism. After three long years of balancing law
school with his job as a bouncer at Penny’s Palace, he’s ready to lead a more
mature life—until his first day of work, when he finds himself in the office of
that crazy, hot chick he met in Cancun. The one he hasn’t stopped thinking
about.

If Ben truly were a smart guy, he’d stay clear of Reese. She’s the boss’s
stepdaughter and it’s been made very clear that office romances are grounds for
dismissal. Plus, rumor has it she’s trouble. The only problem is, he likes
trouble, especially when it’s so good-looking…

The first forkful of pie is sliding into my mouth when my phone comes alive with the sound of minions singing the banana song.

“Happy Monday,” I mutter into the phone.

“I hate numbers.”

“It’s
a good thing you won’t be dealing with them on a daily basis for the
next forty years, then.” Lina finished her undergrad degree last spring
and passed her CPA exam with flying colors. Now she’s working at a small
accounting firm down the street to collect a year of experience before
she can apply for her license.

“What are you doing?” she asks.

“Hiding from karma at Bayside.”

“Don’t drink the coffee,” she warns.

“Too
late,” I mutter, swirling the last bit of the toxic substance in my
mug. Every time I come here, I order a cup to go with my chocolate pecan
pie. It’s habit, I guess. There’s no other explanation. The coffee is
weak, it has a salty aftertaste, and there’s always a weird film at the
bottom of the cup. No one with taste buds would like this crap.

With a heavy sigh, I divulge the horror of my day.

“So
Mason is friends with your botched exorcism,” she states flatly. I can
always count on Lina to lay it out like it is. No beating around the
bush. No softening the blow. “What did the guy say to you?”

“That I owe him a new shirt.”

She snorts. “Well, he’s got you there.”

“Thanks.”

“Maybe
I’ll take a break and swing by. We can mock people together,” Lina
offers. Another plus to this job: having my best friend only four blocks
away from me.

“Don’t bother. I’ve been here for two hours. I
actually have to go back to the office. The law bot dumped three new
cases on my desk today.”

“Fine. Do you want to come over for dinner sometime this week? Nicki’s cooking.”

“Does it involve turkey bacon?”

“All
unconventional meats have been banned.” Since Lina owns the small
two-bedroom-plus-den condo that they moved into, she is well within her
power to stop Nicki from inflicting others with her strange dietary
preferences.

“Well, this doesn’t sound promising.” I shove a large piece of pie in my mouth.

“It
all depends on whether you want your best friend, the one who sticks up
for you, has lied to the police for you, has gone along with all of
your harebrained ideas, to be happy.”

“You’ve never lied to the police for me.”

“Senior year. The bottle of vodka in the trunk when we got pulled over.”

“Fine. One time,” I heave with exasperation. “What has that earned you today?”

“Well, I’ve started seeing someone that you may not . . .”

Lina’s
voice blurs as I watch a ginger-haired woman flounce through the patio,
her purse swinging on her arm, as happy as any home-wrecking husband
thief could possibly be.

“Oh my God!” Chunks of piecrust get
sucked down my throat with my gasp, stirring up a cough that I struggle
to suppress. “It’s her!” I hiss.

Born in small-town Ontario, Kathleen published her first book at the age of six with the help of her elementary school librarian and a box of crayons. She is a voracious reader and the farthest thing from a genre-snob, loving everything from High Fantasy to Chick Lit. Kathleen currently resides in a quaint small town outside of Toronto with her husband, two beautiful girls, and an exhausting brood of four-legged creatures.

1 comment:

Thank you for the awesome giveaway look forward to reading both Five Ways To Fall and In Her Wake both sound like very good books. I have put them on my To Buy List I especially want to read In Her Wake because the subject matter really interests me. Five Ways To Fall with a purple haired protagonist she sounds really interesting and I just love a slightly misplaced young woman, Reese.. hoping that this my first of your books that I have read and I am going to get the others as well. Thank you for the giveaway love the simple covers they convey more than the forced arty ones.